TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV reports and articles to read - 3 March 2021.

Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:    

■ Netflix has commissioned an Asterix limited animation series.

■ SHOCKER: "Just a question of time" until the ultimate demise of traditional pay-TV.

■ Cord-cutting whereby American consumers dump their traditional pay-TV subscription was the worst-ever in 2020.

■ ANC political party doing public protests over eNCA's (DStv 403) racist mask scandal.

- ANC gives eNCA 7 days to respond to its racist mask incident.

- ANC to submit official complaint to Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA).

■ Dear M-Net (DStv 101) with Love Island SA scandal, eNCA (DStv 403) with racist mask scandal, and everyone else working in PR in South African television: Top six Disney lines every creative PR pro should live by.

■ The BBC yet again interviewed the wrong person and this time it got fooled in a deliberate hoax.

■ The SABC and the Emzini Wezinsizwa actors Jerry Phele and Augustine Shotholo are fighting over unpaid residuals the actors are owed after the SABC broadcast repeats of seasons of the show.

■ As Prince Phillip remains in hospital, will Britain's ITV delay the broadcast of Oprah's bombshell interview special with Harry and Meghan?

■ "Love Island South Africa cast on M-Net (DStv 101) doesn't feel South African."

■ China's StarTimes pay-TV operator in Africa denies that it is under a liquidation order over unpaid debt for content rights - but hilariously admits that it is in court proceedings over it - which is exactly what was originally reported.

■ Taylor Swift slams Netflix over deeply sexist joke about her love life.

■ The famously matricless former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and other SABC executives must pay back the money paid to certain music "legends".

■ Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / StarSat 257) staffers shocked over its launch of Rightly as a rightwing platform: "A betrayal of the values that we work towards". m: "

■ ViacomCBS's Paramount+ video streaming service is targeting a younger demographic.

■ A lot more SABC staffers are getting fired and left without jobs in the retrenchment process of the South African public broadcaster than just 300 says Bemawu trade union.

■ 2021's Golden Globes ratings crater.

- Viewers tuning out of the fake fest.

- 78th Golden Globes ratings fall to an All-Time Low.

- It's time to ditch the Golden Globes.

- Technical glitches were not the only disasters at the tone-deaf HFPA's Golden Globes.

■ Jon Bon Jovi admits that he has never watched Sex and the City although he appeared in it.

■ Disney CEO Bob Shapek sees no turning back from the introduction of new streaming-movie release windows.

■ Is Discovery Inc.'s new video streaming service Discovery+ a success?

■ "A la Carte" - the opposite of the "bundling" of TV channels with traditional pay-TV is taking on a whole new meaning with video streamers.

■ The BBC is reviving its axed BBC3 TV channel as a linear broadcast channel from January after it was shuttered in 2015.

The BBC will double its content commissions for the channel over the next 2 years as it focuses on content for 16 to 35-year olds.

■ Will the future of Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (Dstv 101) be decided sooner rather than later?

■ Why Disney releases Friday episodes of WandaVision on its Disney+ streaming service late in the night on Thursdays to the world except for South Africa where thousands pirate view it.

■ "Television is capable of ripping you apart."

■ Ryan Seacrest on why he left E!'s (DStv 124) red carpet coverage after 14 years  just before the Golden Globes.